We Grow Our OwnThe trials and successes of life on our allotment

As you know, I constantly go on and on about how I feel that everyone should grow their own veg if they can, even if it is just one tub of salad on their patio, or some herbs in their windowbox.

Well now those nice people at Cafe Direct have started a campaign called ‘Sow Your Own.’

In their own words “A host of celebrities have teamed up with Cafedirect to front ‘Sow Your Own’, a micro allotment campaign that will encourage garden-starved urbanites to give growing their own food a go this summer.”

If you have a look at their website there are lots of ideas about how everyday objects that you have never got round to throwing away can be turned into funky planters, so that you can grow and have delicious fresh veg at your fingertips, wherever you are.

Also, they teamed up with top Michelin Star Chef Michael Caines MBE to reward inventive home-grown efforts this summer. As part of Cafédirect’s Sow Your Own Campaign, the most imaginative transformation of an up-cycled everyday object into a ‘micro allotment’ will win the chance to spend the morning in the prestigious two Michelin Star Kitchen at the Gidleigh Park Hotel, including a lunch for two which incorporates some of the winner’s hand cultivated ingredients.

So now you have no excuse …. get planting and ‘Sow Your Own!’